The practical book of early American arts and crafts (1916)
Eberlein, Harold Donaldson, McClure, Abbot, 1879-, Bainbridge, Mabel Foster, 1885- · Philadelphia, London : J.B. Lippincott Company · leaf 96
Bucks, Pennsylvania DECORATIVE METAL WORK 63 Then, again, very graceful hanging lamps or Ian-thorns with glass sides, were fashioned of wrought iron.The old lamp or lanthorn, shown in the illustration(Fig. 4), made for the Philadelphia Library in 1731 andnow hanging just inside the entrance of the… … Fig. 4. Wrought iron Lanthorn.Courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia. for a long time, regarded as firebacks, when, in truth,they are something quite different. The patient in-vestigations and assiduous collecting of Henry Chap-man Mercer, Esq., to whose painstaking antiquarianresearch we…
Decorative arts -- United States History · Collectors and collecting
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